On the equality front ...

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune)
LGBT activists are arrested after blocking the doors to Senate committee room 210 at the Utah state Capitol on Monday, Feb. 9, 2014, in an effort to bring attention to anti-discrimination bill SB 100 with hopes of a hearing.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune)
LGBT activists are arrested after blocking the doors to Senate committee room 210 at the Utah state Capitol on Monday, Feb. 9, 2014, in an effort to bring attention to anti-discrimination bill SB 100 with hopes of a hearing.

"To find conclusive proof that Amendment 3 is unconstitutional, the 10th Circuit Court needs to look no further than the brief filed last week by the state of Utah, which tries to justify second-class citizenship for same-sex couples in Utah based on the ill-founded belief that they are supposedly third-rate parents. ..."

"The non-discrimination bill, currently stuck in unnecessary fears and hesitation, is an opportunity for intellectual honesty or an abdication of responsibility.

"Anything that may remotely be connected to LGBT issues is being put on hold. Under such an approach, we should just shut down the Legislature because almost any legislation will impact some gay person. Gay citizens are a part of our social and political community. All laws impact all of us, LGBT included. ..."

"... If Utah wants to maintain its child-friendly reputation, it's time to be friendly to all children, and that includes telling children of gay parents that their families are just as valued as any other.

"... Want marriage? Set people free from poverty — or artificial limits — first, and watch the licenses fly out of the clerk's office. Just as they did for those giddy weeks when same-sex marriage was legal in Utah. Free people marry for love. And nothing else."